crown-of-thorns

基本解释

• n. 长棘海星；虎刺，铁海棠，棘刺植物

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
  其他对于大堡礁及其生态系统的环境压力来自径流的水质问题，伴随着大规模珊瑚白化的气候变化以及棘冠海星的周期性爆发现象。

权威例句

• Although it is a natural inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef, the crown-of-thorns has, in recent years, undergone several population explosions.
  ECONOMIST: A new study puts numbers to the Great Barrier Reef’s decline
• The remaining two-fifths, they say, was predation by the crown-of-thorns starfish.
  ECONOMIST: The Great Barrier Reef: Dr De’ath v the killer starfish The
• They had spent months on it, secretly collecting firewood, carving it -- the cross and the body -- using radio wire for a crown of thorns.
  WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Awards Chaplain Emil Kapaun the Medal of Honor The White House

词组短语

短语

• Crown -of-thorns star 棘冠海星
• crown -of-thorns flower 铁海棠花
• large -leaf crown-of-thorns 大叶麒麟花

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs

专业释义

生物学

• 铁海棠,虎刺,麒麟花 (euphorbia milii splendens)
• 麒麟花